Somewhere past 2 AM there’s a cafe with no address. The coffee is cold, the jukebox only plays two bands, and the bartender has an empty heart and a full ashtray. Agent K is back behind the counter tonight, and he isn’t taking requests. He’s handing out three hours of music like fortunes from a cracked cookie.
Last month’s show ended on the first breath after a coma. So tonight we wake up inside a whale. Hour One is CKap’s Songs From A Sad Cafe, start to finish. That’s sixteen songs about drifting, drinking and getting as messed up as you want to be. A Telefunken answering machine takes messages from people who already hung up. A cowboy trips on his way across the desert. Gandhi squares off with the Wolfman, and nobody’s sure who to bet on. Jackson Pollock’s heart gets flung at the wall in drips, and somewhere a waltz goes on in bare feet until Rebecca Rose closes up the place.
Then the floor tilts and we fall into Kingfinger. Hour Two is their 2002 self-titled record, all thirteen tracks. There’s a soul creature, a man happy in his straitjacket, and a junction where the trains don’t stop. Alex Supertramp, the name Chris McCandless went by on his way into the wild, wanders off for good near the end.
Hour Three is Letters From Earth, the 2003 follow-up, which borrows its name from Mark Twain’s dispatches from a planet that makes no sense. Twenty tracks of hinges, bleach water, silicone and gum. And yes, John Henry shows up again. The steel-driving man has haunted Agent K’s last few shows like a ghost who won’t leave the jukebox, and tonight he’s still trying to beat the machine. Stay till the bonus track. Nobody knows what’s in it, and that’s the point.
Two bands, three albums, one sad cafe. Pull up a stool. The lights stay on until sunrise.
PLAYLIST
Hour One
01. CKap - Jonah - Songs From A Sad Cafe - Skapheim Media - 2026
02. CKap - Come And Go - Songs From A Sad Cafe - Skapheim Media - 2026
03. CKap - Three Times A River - Songs From A Sad Cafe - Skapheim Media - 2026
04. CKap - Gahndi vs Wolfman - Songs From A Sad Cafe - Skapheim Media - 2026
05. CKap - The Telefunken Answering Machine - Songs From A Sad Cafe - Skapheim Media - 2026
06. CKap - As Messed As I Want To Be - Songs From A Sad Cafe - Skapheim Media - 2026
07. CKap - The Tripping Cowboy - Songs From A Sad Cafe - Skapheim Media - 2026
08. CKap - You Don't Bring Me Flowers - Songs From A Sad Cafe - Skapheim Media - 2026
09. CKap - Jackson Pollock's Heart - Songs From A Sad Cafe - Skapheim Media - 2026
10. CKap - The Legendary Hitman - Songs From A Sad Cafe - Skapheim Media - 2026
11. CKap - Bartender With An Empty Heart - Songs From A Sad Cafe - Skapheim Media - 2026
12. CKap - Katrina - Songs From A Sad Cafe - Skapheim Media - 2026
13. CKap - The Barefooted Waltz - Songs From A Sad Cafe - Skapheim Media - 2026
14. CKap - Fallen - Songs From A Sad Cafe - Skapheim Media - 2026
15. CKap - The Things I Might Never Say - Songs From A Sad Cafe - Skapheim Media - 2026
16. CKap - Rebecca Rose - Songs From A Sad Cafe - Skapheim Media - 2026
Hour Two
01. Kingfinger - So Kind Of You - Kingfinger - Kingfinger Inc - 2002
02. Kingfinger - Fantastica - Kingfinger - Kingfinger Inc - 2002
03. Kingfinger - Soul Creature - Kingfinger - Kingfinger Inc - 2002
04. Kingfinger - Nevermind - Kingfinger - Kingfinger Inc - 2002
05. Kingfinger - Happy In A Straight Jacket - Kingfinger - Kingfinger Inc - 2002
06. Kingfinger - Heaven Sent - Kingfinger - Kingfinger Inc - 2002
07. Kingfinger - The Junction - Kingfinger - Kingfinger Inc - 2002
08. Kingfinger - Outside - Kingfinger - Kingfinger Inc - 2002
09. Kingfinger - Fire - Kingfinger - Kingfinger Inc - 2002
10. Kingfinger - Down To One - Kingfinger - Kingfinger Inc - 2002
11. Kingfinger - Underwater - Kingfinger - Kingfinger Inc - 2002
12. Kingfinger - Alex Supertramp - Kingfinger - Kingfinger Inc - 2002
13. Kingfinger - Shine - Kingfinger - Kingfinger Inc - 2002
Hour Three
01. Kingfinger - Broken Hinged - Letters From Earth - Kingfinger Inc - 2003
02. Kingfinger - People Like Us - Letters From Earth - Kingfinger Inc - 2003
03. Kingfinger - Hybrid/Flower - Letters From Earth - Kingfinger Inc - 2003
04. Kingfinger - Whistling Dixie - Letters From Earth - Kingfinger Inc - 2003
05. Kingfinger - Sonny Boy - Letters From Earth - Kingfinger Inc - 2003
06. Kingfinger - Viscious Circle - Letters From Earth - Kingfinger Inc - 2003
07. Kingfinger - Beat The Machine (John Henry) - Letters From Earth - Kingfinger Inc - 2003
08. Kingfinger - Sand (Marylin's Room) - Letters From Earth - Kingfinger Inc - 2003
09. Kingfinger - Bleach Water - Letters From Earth - Kingfinger Inc - 2003
10. Kingfinger - Mind All Over Matter (A.K.A. Courtney Love) - Letters From Earth - Kingfinger Inc - 2003
11. Kingfinger - Operatora - Letters From Earth - Kingfinger Inc - 2003
12. Kingfinger - Silicone - Letters From Earth - Kingfinger Inc - 2003
13. Kingfinger - Nexxus - Letters From Earth - Kingfinger Inc - 2003
14. Kingfinger - Gum - Letters From Earth - Kingfinger Inc - 2003
15. Kingfinger - Too Much - Letters From Earth - Kingfinger Inc - 2003
16. Kingfinger - Put It In Ink - Letters From Earth - Kingfinger Inc - 2003
17. Kingfinger - The Royal We - Letters From Earth - Kingfinger Inc - 2003
18. Kingfinger - Litmus - Letters From Earth - Kingfinger Inc - 2003
19. Kingfinger - Heidi - Letters From Earth - Kingfinger Inc - 2003
20. Kingfinger - (Bonus Track) - Letters From Earth - Kingfinger Inc - 2003